#wukchumni

[ranahan]

Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language From Extinction, Dies at 87

[weemietime]

[coe-aildi]

This weekend, check out language stories by community members themselves!

Less than 200 years ago, 90 Native languages and as many as 300 dialects were spoken in California. Today, only half are spoken but ambitious projects are revitalizing them. 

Join us in listening to Emergence Magazine's Webby Award winning Language Keepers podcast on the stories of Wukchumni, Karuk, Kawaiisu, & Tolowa Dee-ni'.

 https://emergencemagazine.org/story/language-keepers

[zhaleys]

Queer and Native Identities

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[thatwritererinoriordan]

Language Keepers – Emergence Magazine

This six-part multimedia experience shares the stories of four Indigenous communities in California who are revitalizing their languages.

Wanna see something pure and good? Check out this project to enrich some of California’s indigenous languages. 

[jillianleedy]

This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.

So cool!!

[songandcrest]

81-Year-Old Woman, Last Fluent Speaker of Her Language, Learns to Type to Make a Dictionary

Marie Wilcox, an octogenarian Native American woman from the San Joaquin Valley in California, was born on Thanksgiving in 1933; she grew up in a one-room house with the grandmother who delivered her and spoke her native Wukchumni, and I believe this video will assure you—Marie is better than you or I will ever be.